A recent survey of eight properties in Norman showed that student housing had a 90-percent occupancy rate and rents averaging $1.28 per square foot. These statistics represent a sharp growth in the number of four bedroom units in Norman.

Superintendent of Streets, Traffic, and Drainage Maintenance of Oklahoma City Mike DeGiacomo stands in front of a motor grader Tuesday afternoon. The grader can be used both for road construction and for removal of ice from the roads, DeGiacomo said.

An instructor and student sit in the hallway of Harding Fine Arts Academy Wednesday afternoon. The Fine Arts Academy shares a building with Harding Charter Prepatory High School and the two charter schools are involved in a dispute over the building's lease.